Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Powersknock, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Powersknock
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.22175, -7.23579
- SMR number
- WA016-039----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 50m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a semicircular bank (C c. 45m) E-W on the 1926 ed. Situated towards the top of the NW-facing slope of a hill. The bank is incorporated into a field bank E-W (int. dim. 36m E-W) with a slight, grass-covered scarp defining the perimeter W-N (int. dim. 29m N-S).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Date of upload/revision: 29th July, 2010.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.